MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
considers
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
distance learning enable
people
in nations all aver the world
to be participants in courses online.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online learning technology organizations
are dealing with
today because distance learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can stakeholders
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
manage issues like
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desideratum
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
endeavours.
Educators want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
growing
desideratum for
details
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This new book
also analyzes the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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